Working with the actors, working with production designers, working with the creative people who surround the process is really fun, it's really inspiring and I take great pleasure in working with them. That's what's most fun about directing.

I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know?

There's a bigger universe at hand.

When you dont inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.

It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on TV.

Something you can do in a comic that you can't do in a film is that you can have thought bubbles.